Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

[sherifffruitfly]

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

tia!

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

sherifffruitfly wrote:

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

With Windows & NTFS then v.txt and V.txt is the same file, so would
it make sense to consider them different ?

Arne

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

sherifffruitfly wrote:

>I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
>include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

>
With Windows & NTFS then v.txt and V.txt is the same file, so would
it make sense to consider them different ?

If you really want it I guess you can get all files and make
your own case sensitive comparison.

Arne

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:31 -0800, sherifffruitfly
<sherifffruitfl y@gmail.comwrot e:

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

You'd have to do it explicitly, and frankly doing so wouldn't make much
sense, since the file system itself is case-insensitive. It stores case,
but you can't have two different files or directories that have names
differing only by case.

Pete

[sherifffruitfly]

Re: Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize casedifferences ?

On Dec 13, 3:26 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nn owslpianmk.com>
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:06:31 -0800, sherifffruitfly
>
<sherifffruit.. .@gmail.comwrot e:

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

>
You'd have to do it explicitly, and frankly doing so wouldn't make much
sense, since the file system itself is case-insensitive. It stores case,
but you can't have two different files or directories that have names
differing only by case.
>
Pete

Ah - I hadn't realized - they're displayed "cased" in Windows
Explorer.

Ok then - does searchPattern permit regex matching?


Thanks for pointing out the case insensitivity of directories/files
all!

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:24:46 -0800, sherifffruitfly
<sherifffruitfl y@gmail.comwrot e:

[...]
Ok then - does searchPattern permit regex matching?

I'm reasonably sure it doesn't. It just supports, as far as I know, the
same pattern-matching available via the Windows shell.

Frankly, the search pattern parameter is really just a convenience
parameter. It would be trivial for you to write a custom method that
takes the full directory results and runs whatever search you want on it,
including some sort of Regex-based matching if that's what you want.

Pete